The Notebook

All notes

Essays and notes — life, development, trading.

Trading

Smart Money Concepts

Strip away the jargon and Smart Money Concepts rest on one observable idea: stop liquidity. A guide to market structure, the five-phase cycle, and trade math.

17 min read

Development

Common Pitfalls and Anti-Patterns in Software Delivery

A look at how work gets defined, handed over, and shipped, and the common anti-patterns that slow delivery.

15 min read

Life

To my younger self

The operating manual for reality — principles on character, mastery, resilience, time, relationships, and power.

7 min read

Trading

The macro pulse symbols

Ten symbols that read the whole room before any single chart — fear, money, credit, and the real economy on one watchlist.

2 min read

Trading

The 1-hour chart

My technical setup on the 1-hour chart — the exact indicator stack, and what each layer is there to answer.

4 min read

Trading

The pattern sheet

The classical chart patterns on one sheet — what a pattern actually is, how to read the four bands, and why the shape alone is never the signal.

2 min read

Development

The Software Developer's Ethos

A creed for the craft — writing with purpose, debugging with patience, deploying with confidence, and building for the future one pull request at a time.

1 min read

Life

The English tenses, on one page

An interactive one-page reference for all twelve English tenses — structure, examples, and Turkish translations, side by side.

7 min read

Life

To be like coffee beans

A father's lesson to his son on marriage — carrots, eggs, and coffee beans.

2 min read